Drop your photo, get a passport-ratio JPEG inside the Jammu & Kashmir Public Service Commission’s 10–20 kB window — with the date stamp its own instructions require printed on the photo. Everything runs in your browser; nothing leaves your device.
Jammu & Kashmir Public Service Commission applications — the Combined Competitive Examination, Medical Officer, lecturer and departmental posts — run through a One Time Registration account on jkpsc.nic.in, and the upload rule comes from the commission itself, in two places that agree word for word. The commission’s general instructions for the online form say the size of the photograph (passport size) and signature “must be between 10kB to 20kB in *.jpeg or *.jpg only” — and that the photograph “must mention the date in which it is taken”. The advertisement notifications repeat both: the Medical Officer notification (No 20-PSC (DR-P) of 2025, 480 posts) asks for a “date stamped recent passport size color photograph”, sets a freshness cutoff for when the photo may have been taken, and states the same 10–20 kB, JPEG/JPG-only window. This page is preset to that window: a 19 KB target with an 11 KB floor — inside “10kB to 20kB” whichever way the server counts a kilobyte.
The requirement every JKPSC resize tool skips is the one both commission sources state: the photo must carry the date it was taken, printed on the image. Studio prints from photo shops come date-stamped; phone photos don’t — and an undated photo is the classic silent defect in an otherwise perfect upload. PixFit draws it for you: put the date in the Print on photo field in the options bar (the second box, date taken — leave the name box empty) and it’s rendered as black text on a white strip at the bottom of the photo before the file is fitted to the byte window, so the stamp and the size land in one pass. Be honest with the date — the adverts set a cutoff for how old the photo may be (the Medical Officer advert: not taken before 01.01.2025), and each advert states its own.
Ten kilobytes of headroom, with a floor — tighter than SSC’s signature window and half of ICAI’s. A phone photo at 3–8 MB is several hundred times over the cap, and most compressors treat “under 20 KB” as the only goal, happily emitting a 7 KB file that fails the floor. PixFit fits both ends: it binary-searches encoder quality for the largest file that stays under your target, and if a clean encode comes out below the floor it pads the file up with a spec-valid JPEG comment (plain bytes the format allows; the pixels are untouched, and the comment says in plain text that it’s padding). Output lands between 11 and 19 KB every time.
Neither the commission’s instructions nor its advertisements publish any pixel dimensions — the whole first-party size spec is “passport size” plus the byte window. Tools that sell “the official JKPSC size” as 200×240 pixels made that number up; one popular tool even claims a 20–100 KB window, which contradicts the commission’s own cap. This page presets 250×320 — our suggestion, not an official number: it’s passport ratio (3.5×4.5) at a pixel count that still encodes cleanly inside 20 KB. More pixels inside the same byte cap means harsher compression artifacts on your face; fewer means a softer print on the admit card. If the upload screen in your OTR account ever states dimensions, believe the portal and type them into the Exact size field.
The signature upload shares the photograph’s rule exactly: 10–20 kB, JPEG/JPG only — a PNG export fails on format before size is even considered. No official pixel size exists for it either (a tool claiming it must be “exactly 200×100” is guessing; another sells 140×60, which is IBPS’s box, a different commission). Sign in ink on white paper, photograph it, and run a second pass here with the target set to 11kb-19kb — and use the signature cleanup tool first if your scan has grey paper or shadows: it finds the ink, whitens the background, and hands back a clean JPEG.
Two practical details from the commission’s own documents. Exam-day entry requires at least two passport-size recent colour photographs in addition to the admit card — have prints made of the same photo you uploaded, so the faces match. And the general instructions ask for a hard copy of the submitted application form (with fee details) to reach the commission’s office at Solina, Srinagar or Resham Ghar Colony, Jammu — JKPSC is one of the few commissions where the online submission has a paper tail; check your advert for the cut-off dates.
Two recruiters, one Union Territory, endlessly mixed up: JKPSC (this page) fills gazetted posts — KAS/CCE, medical, lecturers — at jkpsc.nic.in. JKSSB, the Services Selection Board at jkssb.nic.in, fills non-gazetted posts through a different portal with its own upload rules — don’t assume this page’s numbers apply there; read the JKSSB advert’s own annexure.
Registration, applications and fee payment happen only at jkpsc.nic.in — the commission is explicit that no other mode of applying is valid. A photo tied to your government-job profile — with a date printed on it — shouldn’t detour through a resizer’s server; PixFit runs entirely in your browser: the photo and the date you type never leave your device, the typed text isn’t even saved in browser storage, and the re-encode strips EXIF metadata (including GPS) as a side effect. Applying to other commissions too? See UPPSC, Kerala PSC (the other date-stamp state), UKPSC and the full verified table.
Spec source: JKPSC’s own general instructions for the online application form (jkpsc.nic.in, read July 2026) and Advertisement Notification No 20-PSC (DR-P) of 2025 dated 31-12-2025, which repeat the same numbers verbatim. These numbers can change — if the upload screen in your OTR account disagrees, believe the portal.